Nonfiction
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©2020
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64 pages : colored illustrations ; 26 cm
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Includes index
Not quite big enough -- Meet the dwarf planets -- Locating the dwarf planets -- Smaller than the Earth's moon -- Ice and rock -- King of the Kuiper Belt -- A blurry, reddish disk -- Pluto and the sun -- Pluto and Earth -- The coldest place -- Pluto's double -- Pluto's other moons -- Exploring Pluto -- About Ceres -- Ceres and Earth -- Discovering Ceres -- A dark, cratered place -- Ceres's bright spots -- Studying Ceres -- Distant Eris -- Shining bright in the solar system -- Eris and Earth -- Eris's tiny moon -- About Makemake -- About Haumea -- Two moons and a ring -- Beyond Neptune : the Kuiper Belt -- Beyond Pluto
""Presents facts about the composition, atmosphere, and history of exploration of Pluto and other dwarf planets and features large illustrations and photographs."--
Ages 9-13
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